These Pictures Tell Us All We Need to Know About

What's Wrong With Peachtree Village HOA!

The HOA thinks this house looks terrible!

Why? Because the owner painted over the bricks with white paint, and "that's against the [41 year old] rules"!

So, the HOA uses OUR MONEY to pay a FOR PROFIT company to spy on our homes, take pictures, accuse them of a "violation" (like painting over bricks) and threaten the owner with a fine of up to $500, which Goodwin gets 1/3 of in pure profit $$$

Meanwhile, on the very SAME STREET where this house is, the HOA has done NOTHING to fix these potholes with the rebar sticking out!!! You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know it's the POTHOLES that are dragging down the value our homes, NOT painted bricks!

This is just one of the many reasons why your Neighborhood Union is calling on Peachtree Village HOA to STOP giving OUR MONEY (to the tune of TENs of $1,000.00s) to greedy HOA management companies (like Goodwin & Co.)!

Let's not fall for this financial SCAM anymore! Tell Peachtree Village HOA to do what our original Articles of Incorporation say (ARTICLE THREE, Section One) was the reason for forming our HOA in the first place--NOT to make a PROFIT, but to maintain our COMMMON AREAS! The HOA must get rid of Goodwin $ Co., convert to self-management and, instead of profiting at our expense, use OUR MONEY to address the REAL NEEDS of our community and to stop monetizing the psychological problems of people who feel they need to CONTROL others!

June 9, 2025

To: The Board of Directors of Peachtree Village Homeowners Association

From: The Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union

Please read and study the following 12 Much-Needed Changes written in response to what the people of Peachtree Village (residents and non-resident homeowners alike) are demanding after many years when the Peachtree Village HOA (an organization that was formed in 1984 as a NON-PROFIT corporation) neglected its duty to maintain the Common Areas, illegally pressured homeowners to pay for repairs to common areas, illegally hired a for-profit company to exploit us financially by monetizing personal prejudices, illegally selectively enforced rules by fining only certain homeowners, illegally prevented the inspection of our HOA records, illegally misappropriated HOA funds for private and political purposes, irresponsibly wasted 100s of $1,000.00s to prop up the environmentally- and economically-unsustainable crabgrass on our greenbelt and illegally conducted stalking attacks on our residents! We, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union, on behalf of every human being who lives in Peachtree Village as well as the non-resident homeowners who have a direct stake in bringing a halt to all of these abuses of power, call on the newly-elected Board of Directors of Peachtree Village HOA to enter into a binding agreement with the Union to, immediately, make the following, 12 Much-Needed Changes:

The 12 Much-Needed Changes to the Conduct and Policies of Peachtree Village HOA

01) The HOA agrees to transition to self-management, and will no longer hire any HOA management company to act on behalf of the HOA Board. The Board may hire a bonded, part-time clerk to receive HOA dues, keep track of dues payments, issue payments for other, necessary services and provide a complete, detailed monthly report of ALL financial transactions to the Board, the Union, and all Members (homeowners).

02) The HOA agrees to transfer ALL HOA records to a local data storage company which has a secure audit room so ANY member may, at ANY time during normal business hours, inspect ANY record and will never try to obstruct, delay or demand money to access ANY HOA record in accordance with the inspection rights of all members as unequivocally specified in both our original CCRs and Bylaws.

03) The HOA agrees to stop all surveillance of homeowners’ properties not ceded to any of the Common Areas. From here on, all complaints or concerns related to individual homeowners’ property maintenance will be relayed to the City of Plano Neighborhood Services for investigation and City property code compliance.

04) The HOA agrees to suspend the Architectural Control Committee (ACC) until it is removed entirely from the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions. The HOA and the Union agree to educate all homeowners about the need to get a City of Plano permit for substantial changes or additions to their individual properties, and will coordinate with the City to obtain and publicize up-to-date information about what changes/additions require or don’t require a permit.

05) The HOA agrees to create a committee made up of one Board member and one Union member to serve as a neutral mediator for neighbors who have any non-emergency disputes with each other to help resolve them in a peaceful way.

06) The HOA agrees to use the funds generated by our regular dues payments for the purpose of maintaining or improving our Common Areas (the greenbelt, private (“blue sign”) streets and curbs, sidewalks, retaining walls, and lighting), as well as to desist from any attempt to call for a vote to raise the maximum, $480.00 amount of annual assessments per Affected Lot (dues per year, per home).

07) The HOA agrees to work with the Union on placing non-threatening and clearly-worded signs to politely help residents understand when and where to place bulk trash out for the City of Plano to remove, as well as, non-threatening and clearly-worded signs to politely explain to residents and visitors how they may use the auxiliary, temporary parking spaces.

08) The HOA agrees to work with the Union to make it clear to all residents and visitors where they may park on public (“green sign”) or private (“blue sign”) streets in order to reduce the burgeoning demand on our limited, individual, driveway/garage parking spaces.

09) The HOA agrees to reimburse every homeowner for fines paid, as well as, to all homeowners who were pressured to pay for repairs or replacement of any structure on any of the Common Areas, such as retaining walls. The HOA and the Union agree to help negotiate payment plans to reimburse those homeowners who paid more than $1,000. out of their own pockets for repairs that should have been paid for by the HOA’s maintenance fund, which should have been funded by the members’ regular dues (assessments) paid over many past years, as is required by our original CCRs.

10) The HOA agrees all future Board of Directors elections be conducted in keeping with all modern, democratic norms, as specified by the following changes:

a) There shall be no more proxy voting, replacing them with secure, absentee, mail-in ballots, for those who don’t vote in person.

b) Elections shall be conducted by independent persons who have no stake in the outcome (so, no more elections conducted by HOA management companies.)

c) There shall be a minimum of 45 days between nomination submissions and election dates.

d) All candidates must participate in at least one debate with all others, at a neutral forum, made available online for live viewing and recorded for public viewing afterwards.

e) Absolutely no HOA funds may be used for political purposes, especially by current Board members seeking re-election.

f) All ballots submitted will be verified against a DIRECT, unaltered copy of homeowners’ names from the Collin County Appraisal District’s records.

11) The HOA agrees to work with the Union to develop and implement a plan to convert our greenbelt to an economical, environmentally-sustainable replacement of the current non-native crabgrass on our Greenbelt, in coordination with the City of Plano’s Environmental Sustainability and Neighborhood Services departments, in order to permanently terminate use of expensive, City/Water District drinking water and prevent further soil erosion as evidenced by the frequent mud flows onto our streets, parking spaces and sidewalks.

12) The HOA agrees to work the Union on a replacement of the original, outdated Declaration of CCRs in order to bring it into conformity with this agreement, current Texas Law, court precedents, and modern democratic conventions.

The List of 12 Much-Needed Changes Has Been Sent to the new Board of Directors of Peachtree Village HOA

Below is a copy of the letter that was sent today by your Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union to all 5 of the Directors of Peachtree Village HOA. It is the hope of the Union and every resident and non-resident homeowner of Peachtree Village who helped us put together this list of vitally needed changes, that this new Board will, finally, come to terms with the many abuses of power and waste of our hard-earned money and work with us, instead of against us, to make Peachtree Village a happy and thriving place for EVERYONE to make a HOME here and, for once and for all, pay no more allegiance to those few who have only sought to divide us according to their personal bigotries and whatever else it is that seems to compel them to control the lives of others!

See If You Can

Tell What the Problem Is

The HOA thinks THIS color----->>>>

is a BIG problem!

But the HOA doesn't think these--->>> potholes are any problem at all!

Why??? Why is it that, FOR YEARS, Peachtree Village HOA has done NOTHING about the scores of POTHOLES all over our community, while giving TENS of $1,000.00s of OUR money to Goodwin $ Co. so they could stalk, harass and fine homeowners for their decoration choices??? Especially all the while they CLAIM to care about house re-sale values going down...when anyone in their right mind can see the REAL problem is the POTHOLES, not the trim color a homeowner chooses because it helps her personalize the house SHE pays for in order to make it HER HOME!!!

The answer: Goodwin $ Co. MAKES MORE $$$ each time a fine is collected, but makes $0.00 when the HOA does their real job--maintain the Common Areas, like fixing the potholes on our private (blue sign) streets!!!

Let's not fall for this financial SCAM anymore! Tell Peachtree Village HOA to do what our original Articles of Incorporation (ARTICLE THREE, Section One) said was the reason for forming our HOA in the first place--NOT to make a PROFIT, but to maintain our COMMMON AREAS! The HOA must get rid of Goodwin $ Co., convert to self-management and use OUR MONEY to address the REAL NEEDS of our community and to stop monetizing the psychological problems of people who feel they need to CONTROL others!

Having a HOME (Not Just a House)

Is a Human Right!

Perhaps it’s difficult for us to understand how important it is for every human being to have, not only a material shelter of some sort to shield us from the physical elements—cold, heat, rain, snow and so on—but people also need at least one place in all the world where they are sheltered from all the other many threatening elements we encounter so often when we’re out and about, such as, threats against our privacy, against our safety, against our comfort, against our sense of belonging, and against our need to be in charge. As the outside world continues take more and more of these things away, with cameras watching our every move, with smart phones tracking our every purchase and click, and with corporations spending $Billions each year to find more and more effective ways to manipulate our minds and emotions, so we’ll, without even noticing, “choose” their products and services over others, it is now more important than ever that every one of us, whether we are a family of one or many (pets included) have that one place to where we can retreat and truly experience as our emotional and mental sanctuary!

It's for this very important reason the legalization of HOAs is turning out to be one of the biggest mistakes our society has ever made! And the reason is simple—so-called “Homeowners Associations” are specifically designed to rob us of our HOMES, to invade our privacy, to infringe on our comfort, our sense of belonging, our “locus of control, and to deprive us of an emotional and mental sanctuary!

Of course, the HOA Movement got a big lift when an entire FOR PROFIT industry arose right alongside them who, with the $Billions they make every year (in 2023, it’s estimated the HOA Industry hauled in $88,000,000,000.00) devote a large portion of their funds to influence government, social media and hone propaganda rhetoric which they supply to the HOA Boards they either control directly or to assist them in their efforts to displace (if not to actually run them off, to at least displace them in every other way) the people in their communities they cannot stand. In other words, they’ve become very skilled at MONETIZING BIGOTRY!

Though HOAs are maybe the latest iteration of one group of people taking control of others, in order to profit off of them, and “keep them in their place,” dividing and conquering is one of the oldest human strategies of abuse, disenfranchisement and enslavement. Think of how Julius Caesar employed his divide et impera in order to conquer Gaul (modern France), by amplifying the differences between the Gallic tribes, taking advantage of their suspicions, of their prejudices, and of their sense of superiority over others, which ultimately helped him pick them off once tribe at a time!

Likewise, HOAs use the same strategy, by amping up people’s fears about others who, were they permitted to enjoy the same level of home sovereignty as “us,” they would tear the neighborhood down by committing serious neglect and decorating their houses in ways the "Superior Us" deems inappropriate.

Worse, though, the HOA Propaganda Machine has, for many decades, been influencing people to believe our homes are nothing more than an “investment,” and its only value is measured by how much it could be sold for at a later date! Even in communities where there is no HOA, it’s not uncommon for homeowners to think they shouldn’t decorate or remodel their homes the way they would really want to, because “That will probably hurt the house’s resell value!” What then happens? People spend decades of their lives decorating their houses to make them appealing, not to themselves, but to people who don’t even live there!

Right now, the full impact of way HOAs deprive homeowners of their fundamental need to have a place where THEY are in control may take decades to understand. However, there are already some studies out which are, already, explaining the dangers. For example, Dr. Gary Solomon, a psychology professor at the College of Southern Nevada, has identified the adverse affects of associations who take away a homeowner’s vital emotional and mental needs as “HOA Syndrome,” resulting in measurable signs of anxiety, irritation, and worry!

It's for this reason, a good number of the residents, along with non-resident homeowners who make up the Peachtree Village community, have formed the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union. No longer are we going to allow a small group of people who believe themselves to be superior to all the rest of us to treat us like children, to constantly act toward us in a condescending manner, to take our money and hand it off to FOR PROFIT HOA management corporation, and to spend so much of it on foolish, unsustainable common area crabgrass, all the while failing, miserably, to carry out what should be their primary responsibility—repairing our (non-public) roads which are covered with potholes, replacing rotting retaining walls, and getting the trash (most all of it from careless passersby) and fallen tree limbs picked up off our greenbelt.

We’re not sure if this small group of control-obsessed people will ever come to understand how their behavior is actually exasperating, if not creating in the first place, the very carelessness they claim must be met with draconian threats of fines, because the more people don’t FEEL their principal dwelling is THEIR HOME, their unique emotional and mental and safe and private SANTUARY then, of course, their not going to have the sense of pride and desire to maintain and improve upon it, as would naturally, otherwise take place! We hope, one day, they’ll figure this out, but in the meantime, we are going to use every legal means at our disposal in order to claw back our right, for each and every one of us to have a HOME, not just a house!

Learn How to Decode What the HOA Publishes to Find What They're Really Saying

The Next Peachtree Village HOA Board Meeting is Set for June 18, 2025, and Your Union Will Be There to Represent

All the PEOPLE of Our Community

As we have made note of before, HOAs are NOT organized for the purpose of serving the people who live in the communities where the are located, but for the HOA organization itself, supposedly, for the purpose of maintaining the financial value of the house properties and maintenance of all Common Areas. By contrast, our Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union has a very different purpose--to protect the interests of ALL the PEOPLE who are part of our community (both resident and non-resident homeowners, as well as all lessees), though these two purposes are not necessarily in complete conflict.

It would be best, of course, if the HOA Board were to sit down with our Union representatives in order to reach a collective agreement on what the HOA's agenda and priorities will be and how they will carry it out. If the Peachtree Village HOA's New Board is willing, we have offered to meet with them, in advance of their first regular, monthly meeting, so they can get a good idea about what corrections need to be made after many years of previous Boards' mistreatment of the people in our community and neglect of care of our Common Areas (the Greenbelt, sidewalks, parking lots, private roads, all the common drives providing access to every house, and retaining walls).

To this end, we will be putting together a list of changes we want to see made and put into practice. So, please take a little time this week to contact us at info@peachtreevillageplano.com and tell us what YOU want the HOA to do and to stop doing. In general, we are insisting the HOA recognize they are not supposed to be merely caring about house investment value, but for the human need of everyone in our community for far more than a physical dwelling, but a place where they truly feel AT HOME!

How Having Control Over Your Principal Dwelling Is What Makes It "HOME."

If you’ve ever had an HOA management company (like Goodwin & Co.) send someone to spy on your home or other parts of your property, taking pictures and writing down notes, all for the purpose of finding things to accuse you of that are defined as “violations,” and then threatened with a fine of anywhere from $50.00 to $500.00, plus additional costs like $25.00 for each letter sent just to make the allegation and threat of a fine, and late fees on top of those if you don’t pay up by a certain time (a practice called “Fee Stacking”) and as a result, you felt harassed, terrified, intimidated, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended, then what was done to you is no different than what is strictly forbidden by the State of Texas’ Law against STALKING!

According to the Texas Penal Code, 42.072, (a), (3), (D):

“(a) A person commits an offense if the person, on more than one occasion and pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct that is directed at a specific other person, knowingly engages in conduct that: (3) would cause a reasonable person under circumstances similar to the circumstances of the other person to: (D) feel harassed, terrified, intimidated, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended.”

Stalking, as defined above, is a serious crime in Texas. The same Texas Penal Code, 42.072, (b) states, “an offence under this section is a felony of the third degree”! That’s 2 to 10 years in prison and up to a fine of $10,000.00!

Of course, we usually tend to think of stalking only in terms of when someone becomes so obsessively attracted to someone in a sexual way, that they begin following them and spying on them without the permission of the person they’re so obsessed with. But the Law doesn’t restrict criminal stalking just to people who have some sexual obsession. It doesn’t really say anything about what the MOTIVE of the stalker is. What matters is if someone spies on you or your home, more than one time, and it results in YOU FEELING any one of the following experiences--harassed, terrified, intimidated, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended, then it’s criminal Stalking!

One of the many abusive practices that has taken place, repeatedly, especially in the past year or two, which the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union will be vigorously opposing should it ever happen again, is when the HOA sends people to stalk us. To date, when the Peachtree Village HOA “Board” has been approached by residents, especially at the meeting they conducted last March 3, 2025, to inform them of just how badly the practice of sending a spy car, repeatedly, to get right up on our property, take photos, and jot down notes, all for the purpose of accusing us of alleged “violations,” and demanding we pay them fines, naturally resulting in us experiencing harassment, intimidation, annoyance, alarm, embarrassment and offense, they just completely ignored us! The “Board” at that time, could not have cared less about how their paid agent (from OUR money, no less) was acting no differently than what any other criminal stalker does!

Of course, part of the strategy of these corporations has been to manipulate us into a state of learned helplessness. And it doesn't help that, after many decades of one assault after another on our right to privacy, with surveillance cameras watching our every move in almost every place we go, we now have a couple generations that hardly know what it's like to not have someone watching them! However, there is one place where this otherwise terrible onslaught on our privacy has not yet been successful--our homes!

In fact, police lobbyists have tried, repeatedly, to take our home privacy away, only to meet failure when courts ruled in favor of the Constitutional protections from the invasion of our privacy. After failing to get away with taking photos or videos of homes, just to obtain evidence against someone, police lobbyists got some states to allow for thermal imaging cameras to be used (the sort that creates fuzzy, colored images, but still clear enough to see what someone is doing), but the US Supreme Court (Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001), rightfully, decided even this sort of surveillance was Unconstitutional, even if conducted from a public vantage point, is unconstitutional without a search warrant. In our democratic republic, not even the police can park in front of your home to surveil it, especially with recording equipment of any sort, just to find something wrong to accuse you of! They have to have evidence first, and even then, they need a judge to review that evidence first, and give them a warrant before they can spy on your home!

If then, not even the police can drive up to your house to spy on you, just so they can find something to accuse you of, how much less should an HOA or an HOA management company be allowed to do the same! Well, they shouldn't, and if need be, this practice must be banned once and for all in a court of law, and for even more good reason--what makes it even worse is that, unlike the reason police had wanted to violate our home privacy, presumably, to fight crime (in other words, to do a bad thing for a good reason), HOAs like to violate our privacy for a very bad reason--financial profit!

HOAs and their allies--the HOA Management Industry (the "HOA Mafia")--have become solely focused on financial gain. Peachtree Village HOA has long become no different than any other organized, “protection” racket. They don’t see themselves as needing to give a single care about the PEOPLE in the communities where they operate, regardless of whether they’re the owners or lessees. Instead, they have become utterly corrupted, particularly with the rise of the HOA Management Industry which, according to the latest data available (from 2023), makes $108.8 billion a year! When there’s that much profit to be made, the insatiable greed of these callous corporations makes them completely blind to the humans costs that follow in the wake of their abusive and invasive practices!

This is why your Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union will oppose any attempt on the part of the current or any future Board of Directors to hire any HOA management company, and we will also vigorously oppose any form of surveillance on our residents’ homes and yards UNLESS it is to find out what sort of HELP they might need to get caught up on maintenance and repairs.

HOA Spying Is No Different Than the Serious Crime of Stalking

When we hear the word “discrimination,” we might be tempted to think it has to do with the state of mind of people who can’t stand to be around people of another race, ethnic or religious group. To be sure, there is such a thing as racial discrimination, ethnic discrimination or religious discrimination, but these terms are descriptions of what it is inside the minds and hearts of those who, based on those subjective dispositions, then proceed to commit objective acts of discrimination. Prejudice toward another group of people, because of who they are or are not, is not exactly the same thing as discrimination itself, but something that often fuels bad behavior, such as, treating some people one way but other people in another—discrimination!

As long as we understand that discrimination is a behavior, now we can go on to further understand that it really doesn’t matter what sort of subjective disposition motivates people or a group of people to commit acts of discrimination. It could even be that no particular motive is at work, but if a person or group of persons treat someone else differently than they do another, that is discrimination all the same!

So, what does this have to do with how HOAs treat their members? A LOT! Why? Because, while the laws in the State of Texas don’t protect residents and non-resident homeowners living within an HOA community are nowhere near as strong as they should be, there are some protections, in both State and Federal Law that make it illegal for HOAs to do whatever they please (in spite of the way they so often present their authority), and one of those laws says an HOA CANNOT DISCRIMINATE!

The State of Texas has its own laws designed to enforce Federal laws against housing discrimination—the Texas Fair Housing Act, and these laws include prohibitions against things like the selective enforcement of rules and judgments, as when a claim that a “violation” has occurred, and fines are issued accordingly. If an HOA discriminates against any homeowner or lessee, they are subject to prosecution by both State and Federal authorities!

Here in Peachtree Village, we’ve experienced many years of discrimination by one HOA Board (or "Board") after another. While they can, for now (until we get our State Laws to do a lot better job of curbing HOA’s ability to make all sorts of ridiculous rules) make some draconian rules, and issue “fines” for allegedly violating their draconian rules, and if said fines are not paid, it is possible (though not at all certain) they could put a lean on a home for whatever amount they claim is owned to them, but what they cannot do is go after one person for having committed an alleged violation, if they didn’t go after everyone else for the same or similar thing!

But we all know that, here in Peachtree Village, some people have been able to do whatever they please with their homes and other property without any harassment from the HOA, while others have been issued one threatening letter after another, and pressured into paying fines, which is a prime example of DISCRIMINATION!

It could be the reasons or motives for our HOA's discrimination has to do with a negative disposition toward a certain race, national origin or familial status (having children), but no matter what sort of thoughts or feelings were at work in the minds of the HOA director or directors whenever they threatened or fined a resident for whatever sort of rule they allegedly broke, what matters is whether they made the same threat and/or issued the same amount of a fine to everyone else who ever committed the same “violation.” If not, the HOA has committed discrimination and broken the Law!

Let’s consider a specific example. If the HOA allowed one homeowner to paint his entire house exterior a very dark color, such as maroon (very dark) red, but if another homeowner painted her house a similarly dark color, a dark green, a dark blue or a dark purple, and the HOA threatened her with a fine if she didn’t change it to some pastel white or brown, it’s discrimination! Here’s another one. If the HOA did nothing or, if they issued a threatening letter or initially demanded a fine be paid by someone whose lawn grass got taller than, let’s say, 6 inches, but subsequently, a Director waived the fine, but later on, the HOA threatened, issued a demand that a fine be paid, and did not waive the fine against some other resident whose grass also got up to 6 inches, that’s discrimination! In the end, it doesn’t matter what the motive of the HOA director had for treating one resident in one way and another resident differently. They cannot just do as they please, demanding strict adherence from some, but turning a blind eye toward the same “offences” of others. If they do, the persons whom they threatened and/or pressured into paying fines have solid ground to file formal complaints with State and Federal authorities against the HOA for discrimination.

Now, with this information about discrimination coming to light, any person of ordinary reason might think that an HOA (like the one in Peachtree Village) which has, repeatedly, over many years, committed one act of discrimination after another, would wisely stop threatening anyone else ever again for having committed any sort of “violation” unless it was for something they and every previous Board never once allowed, and that is what we, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union, are hoping is the course the current HOA Board and any others who might follow them, will wisely choose to take going forward.

Of course, it may be the Current Board of Directors will not take the wise course, and presume they can simply carry on with their discriminating ways as so many other Boards or “Boards” did in the past. If they do, then we, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union will hold them accountable! This is why we are asking every Peachtree Village resident and non-resident homeowner to notify us immediately (just email us: info@peachtreevillageplano.com) if you should get any sort of threat from the HOA or any agent of theirs (like Goodwin & Co, for however much longer they remain in the HOA’s employ) so we can vigorously investigate whether or not they ever once allowed someone else to do what they’re saying you cannot.

All that said, there are a few people who think the answer to all the acts of discrimination up until now is to go to each and every homeowner who got a pass before, and pursue them with threats and fines and leans until they so change the appearance and structures of their homes they'll look exactly as they did 40 years ago! Trouble is, there’s these things called the “established practice of the parties,” “precedent,” and "ex post facto." While one can never say never, let’s just say that it would be very, very, very difficult for any current or future HOA Board to go back on what they or any previous Board or “Board” allowed some residents to do or not do, and even if it were possible, only at great cost! Therefore, we’re also hoping the Current Peachtree Village HOA Board of Directors would not even think to pursue a path as crazy as this, but were they to do so, we’ll do all we can to be prepared to defend all of our neighbors' rights to do as much as possible to manage their homes as THEY see fit because, after all, it is THEY who bear all the costs of their property and the principle of I Pay, I Rule is what should apply, excepting only for the limits the City, State and Federal governments require, which are plenty enough to ensure no one ever becomes so seriously neglectful of their home it really does have an adverse effect on others.

Any DISCRIMINATION BY AN HOA IS

AGAINST THE LAW!

At Long Last, ALL Peachtree Village Residents and Homeowners Have a United Voice to Defend Them Against HOA Bullying, Neglect & Financial Abuse:

The Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union

Today, May 14, 2025, a brand-new organization was created in order to defend everyone in the Peachtree Village community (that is, all residents and non-resident homeowners) from HOA bullying, harassment, and financial extortion, as well as, to serve as a “watchdog” over the HOA’s spending and all other practices that adversely affect the peace and dignity of everyone who lives in our neighborhood—the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union!

After many years of neglect to take care of the real problems our community faces—litter from passersby, potholes on our streets, retaining walls falling down, unsustainable greenbelt landscaping, over-priced contracts handed out to landscapers or management companies, monthly dues raised without proper approval, dilapidated utility box eyesores, threatening signage illegally mimicking City ordinances, confusion about where to park vehicles, no mediation to help neighbors resolve disputes, and many others, all the while, focusing on taking our money, and constantly sowing division, suspicion and fostering bigotry! They learned how they could usurp and maintain control over our lives and the most precious aspect of them—the places we call “home,” by spewing propaganda specifically-designed to turn us one against the other, so we would be distracted from what THEY were doing wrong and failing to do right!

But now we are uniting to take back control of our lives, of our homes, of our peace and our dignity! With the formation of the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union, we now have an organized group of neighbors who are committed to defending those who have, until now, been so bullied, intimidated, threatened and financially extorted! From now on, any time the HOA harasses or threatens our residents or non-resident homeowners, they will not have to face them alone, but all of us, together!

Our Union will now keep a close eye on what the HOA is doing with our money. We won’t merely take their word at face value, but demand they provide the actual records (as is our right to inspect according to our By-Laws), everything from receipts to election sign-in sheets and proxies, to show us what they’re doing.

We’ll be educating our neighbors, so they will no longer be in the dark about what their rights are. Knowledge is power, and we’ll do all we can to help one another become fully-informed about what an HOA can and cannot legally get away with doing.

Of course, it would be nice if our HOA actually gave a care about us people! It would be nice if they treated everyone, equally, as a human being, as a person, as a neighbor. But we know that’s not what they’re all about. To the HOA, our homes are nothing but “houses,” the value of which is only determined by their financial, investment worth, and the real irony is that they can’t even get that right! They completely fail to understand that, the more they dehumanize, the more they disenfranchise, the more they make people feel like the place they lay their heads at night is not their home, but just some building where they have no say, it becomes more a prison…and when this happens, of course, people are not very inclined to maintain it well!

We’ll also do our best to help our HOA understand the impact of their behavior, though this will probably be one of our most daunting tasks! Right now, our HOA has no clue that, when they spy on us, for the purpose of finding something they consider wrong, followed by an entirely subjective judgment and a threat unless you obey their dictates…they have ALREADY RUINED any good chance of inspiring folks to take good care of their home! It’s a lot like when a gangster walks up to someone on his “turf,” in order to “mug” her, that is, stare at her in a very condescending and threatening way. While from a far distance, it may appear no different than when someone simply looks at another, but with a sense of respect. However, to the person who is subjected to the “spying mug,” especially when the spy is taking photos, writing down notes all for the purpose of finding fault, it is already, an offensive act! This is just one of the many practices about which people in HOA positions of authority are oblivious to, or worse, may even be quite aware of how offensive their behaviors are, but commit them anyway!

This is why we have a two-fold mission. The first is to defend our neighbors using every legal means at our disposal. But in the long run, we will need to change the many unjust laws which HOA lobbyists have convinced our lawmakers to write, often with the help of generous financial contributions! Today, our Texas Property Code is very weak on resident and non-resident homeowner protections. These protections must be strengthened! Therefore, we will need to do our own lobbying to let our legislators know they need to listen to us, their constituents, not those who seek only to profit at the expense of our freedom.

We ask, then, for everyone in our community to support our efforts to be your shield of defense. Spread the word! Let your neighbors know, especially those who’ve been walked over and are, now, cowering in fear, that they need not cower any longer!

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Reach out to us for support in protecting your homeowner/lessee rights and enhancing your individual freedoms to manage YOUR HOME. If, for example, you receive threatening letters from Goodwin and Company or if you see any or their employees spying on you, taking photos of your home and writing down their highly subjective judgments, please let us know right away. If possible, get photos of these meddling employees and forward copies of any threatening letters demanding you pay "fines" or "fees," such as, demands that YOU pay for LETTERS THEY SEND, regardless of whether you received them or not (an unethical and ILLEGAL practice called "Fee Stacking").

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